Disclaimer: These characters do not belong to me, they are the property of Stephanie Meyer and I am simply borrowing them for my own (and your) amusement. I am getting nothing out of this save for some fun.

Summary: Edward couldn't suck the venom out of Bella at the end of Twilight and she becomes a vampire like him. What happens next is anyone's guess. Victoria is still on the loose, Edward has to deal with the guilt of not being able to 'save' Bella in time, both Charlie and Renee are reeling from the loss of their daughter and while Angela and Jessica are reeling from the loss of their friend the Quileute tribe is contemplating what to do about the broken treaty.

A/N: I haven't written a fanfiction for quite a while and even though I'm trying to write my own original work this story has been floating around in my brain for quite awhile. The bolded parts will be Bella's point of view always and they will usually begin and end the chapter. Please be kind this is my first Twilight fic and it completely rewrites the following three books….so if you review, and I hope that you do, I ask you to be kind.

—A DIFFERENT DAWN—

Chapter One: The Turning of Bella Swann

I was on fire. I couldn't figure out what was going on or which way was up or down. The last thing that I remembered was the sounds of something being ripped apart and the image of Edward, my love saying that he was going to make the pain go away. But it didn't go away. The pain didn't go away.

"What am I going to do?" asked Edward as he stared at the writhing form of his dear Bella who was lying on the couch in the Cullen home. "Carlisle I was supposed to protect her! I couldn't protect her!"

"You should have," Rosalie agreed sharply. "Because of you getting to close to this…human…we're all in danger now."

"Rose,"

"No Emmett," Rosalie snapped angrily. "We're going to have to disappear! And Bella's father is a police officer; he's never going to stop chasing us."

"Rosalie…"

"No Carlisle! I like living in Forks. Emmett and I were going to graduate in a couple months. We were going to be able to move on from that small town happily. Now we're going to have to disappear. And it's not fair on any of us."

"Rosalie," Esme began with a calming presence. "Alice saw this."

"All the more reason for Edward to have stayed away from her,"

"Now Rosalie that's not fair," Alice piped up.

"Don't tell me what's fair," Rosalie snapped. "Do you know what's going to happen?"

Alice sighed and shook her head. Try as she might she couldn't force a vision to come. Too many decisions had yet to be made. She could tell that Charlie was at a loss and that Renee hadn't gotten Bella's message yet and wouldn't for a couple more hours. She closed her eyes and cast out a wider net trying to catch a vision of anyone in Forks who was thinking of Bella and she stumbled upon the thoughts of one Jacob Black.

"What was that!?" exclaimed Edward as he reflectively read Alice's mind. "Alice,"

"We're going to have to deal with the Quileute's sooner rather than later," Alice stated with a worried look to her petite face. "Carlisle they know that Bella has been dating Edward, and they have already begun to suspect that…" she paused and looked at the unconscious Bella. "…this has happened."

"How?" asked Jasper as he subtly began to calm down the rising emotions of all in the room.

"Charlie called Billy." Alice explained. "He thought that Bella would go to the reservation first seeing how it was so late at night that we left. And when she wasn't there,"

"They put two and two together," Carlisle finished with a heavy sigh.

"Well now what are we going to do?" asked Rosalie. "The stupid dogs are going to be after us."

"Now Rose," Carlisle began. "We don't know if any of them have turned,"

"It doesn't matter if any of them have turned." Rosalie pointed out. "They could go to Charlie and tell him the truth. What do you think that will do? If Charlie knows then the entire state will know in a week and then we'll have real problems on our hands."

"You mean the Volutri," Carlisle stated with a nod. "Yes they could be a problem."

"But we won't know for a while," Alice assured. "There's nothing that we can do now."

And so the Cullens waited. They had spent most of the first day of Bella's transformation driving back to Forks in the hopes that they could do something and they all hoped that they wouldn't get a surprise visit from Charlie or anyone else. And it was while they waited that Alice received a vision."

"We don't have much time," she stated. "Bella's mom is coming to Phoenix. She thinks that Bella's staying at her old house and when she doesn't find Bella there she's going to freak out."

"So we have to do something," Edward suggested wanting to take his mind off of the pain that Bella was going through. "We have to leave a note saying…"

"…saying what?" asked Rosalie in the same tone. "Hey Mom, I've been turned into a vampire. See you around…like that's going to fly."

"Actually I was thinking along the lines of 'Edward followed me to Phoenix, we've made up and decided to run away together,' it's not perfect but it'll have to do for now."

"It's a good plan," Carlisle agreed. "And it will buy us a great deal of time where Bella's family and the Quileute's are concerned."

"But there is still Victoria," Esme pointed out. "She's gone for now,"

"But that doesn't meant that she won't come back." Carlisle stated. "We will have to do what we can."

Edward turned to Alice. "How much time until Renee gets to Phoenix?"

Alice paused and focused on the vision. "She's taking the first flight out of Jacksonville which is noon their time…that gives us about nine hours and there's a flight leaving at 8AM today and that's only a two hour flight. Plenty of time for me to do this."

Esmee shook her head. "No. I'll fly to Phoenix. You need to stay here in case another vision hits."

And so Esme left leaving the rest of the Cullens to play the waiting game. Three hours later she called saying that the letter was in place and that she'd wait until Renee got there. The hours passes slowly and when Renee finally did come home to a house that looked like it had hadn't been lived in she freaked and called Charlie.

Back in Forks Alice had another vision. "They're going to sit still for now," she stated as the vision came and went. "They're not happy that Bella's 'run off' but they're going to wait a couple days to see if she calls…though they are going to go to the police and put out a bolo for Bella's car which is in our garage…"

"So what do we do?" asked Carlisle.

Edward, without turning away from Bella answered for Alice. 'We wait until Bella wakes up. We wait for another day and see what she'll be like as a newborn."

After who knows how much time the pain finally began to lessen. The fire ebbed from my veins and I began to hear snippets of conversation. I caught the names of people that I knew but it was Edward's voice that became a life line for me. It anchored me to myself and I began to pull out of the fire…finally it disappeared completely and I opened my eyes.

"Bella?" asked Edward drawing my gaze to him. "Bella are you…"

"Me?" I asked as I sat up noticing for the first time that all the Cullens were watching me. "Yeah, I think. So what…"

I stopped myself in the middle of the sentence as everything came back to me in a flash. "James?"

"Dead," Carlisle assured. "But—"

"Oh Bella I am so sorry," Edward stated in a pained voice. "I am so sorry that this happened to you."

And that's when I caught a reflection of myself in the darkened window. I was beautiful and I was a vampire.

A/N2: So I don't know where I'm going next and I'm dealing with school essays and exams so the next update might be a while in coming, but I promise you that I will get something out soonish…